Five people were in the mobile home on Lillie Hagan Road in Bulloch County

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Updated: 6:38 PM EST Feb 9, 2017

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WEBVTT THEIR MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELYTORN APART.THEY SAY, DESPITE LOSINGEVERYTHING, THEY ARE VERYGRATEFUL FOR HAVING WHAT THEYHAVE READ.>> JOHN SCOTT SAYS THERE WAS NOTIME TO BE AFRAID WHEN A TORNADOTORE THROUGH HIS BULLOCH COUNTYHOME.>> HE WAS THROWN FROM HIS HOMEWHILE THE FAMILY TO COVER.>> THEY GOT INTO THE BATHROOM.WITHIN MINUTES APPEARED INTHE FIRST RAINDROPS ON HISWINDOW, IT WAS ALL OVER.>> LIGHTS OUT, IT WAS A ROLLERCOASTER.>> LOOKING AT HIS DESTROYEDMOBILE HOME, POSSESSIONSSCATTERED, HE IS NOT UPSET.THAT'S BECAUSE HE AND HIS FAMILYARE OK.>> I'M THANKFUL I'M ALIVE.>> THE PEOPLE IN THE SCOTT'SHOME WERE FIVE OF SEVEN INJUREDIN THURSDAY'S TORNADO.MUCH OF THE DAMAGE INBULLOCHAND OLD RIVER ROAD.>> IT DAMAGED A TOTAL OF FOURHOMES.>> BULLOCH HOME DIRECTOR SAYSTHE STORM WAS STRONG BUT DIDN'TAFFECT AS MANY RESIDENTS AS ACOULD HAVE.>> BEING AS SPARSELYPOPULATEDAS IT IS, THAT LESSENED THEIMPACT.>> THE FOCUS IS NOW CLEANING UPTHE ROADS IN GETTING POWER BACKON.>>WE ARE COMMUNITY THAT HELPS

Bulloch County family loses home in tornado

Five people were in the mobile home on Lillie Hagan Road in Bulloch County

John Scott walks around what's left of his mobile home with a cautious step. There's broken glass, over turned tables, and trees are draped with insulation the way you'd see Spanish moss draped over a live oak.

"We'll get through it, it's okay," said Scott.

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His home, one of four damaged by an early-morning tornado that tore through Bulloch and Effingham counties.

Seven people were taken to the hospital with injuries, five of those from the Scott home.

Scott said he was awake when he heard the rain on the window, and went to close any open ones before rain could get in.

“And the wind started blowing in really really hard and I started to feel the floor shake, I rolled back over onto my back the next thing I know I’m hitting the ground with a really big thud and a lot of groaning and pain," Scott said.

While Scott was thrown from the home, the four others, Scott's wife, his two sons and the girlfriend of one of his sons took cover.

"They got into the bathroom all four of them got into the bathroom at the front of the house," he said.

Scott and the four others were taken to the hospital,and when he and his sons came back to the house that afternoon, all they saw was a pile of rubble.

"This was always a temporary home," said Scott.

He said they were staying in the trailer until they built a new home on the plot of land in front of the trailer.

But that new home is still just open land.

"We were going to get the blueprints and the permits today, guess that's pushed back," said Scott.

Still, Scott isn't too worried. He said despite losing so much, he still has a lot to be grateful for. His wife, at Memorial Hospital had to have surgery on her back, but he says she was able to move her limbs and was awake and talking, and his sons injuries were limited to bruises, scrapes, and a sprained ankle.